Windows Azure Storage Certificate Expired

Question

The certificate for our Azure blob storage expired today. This is not a certificate provided by us but provided by Microsoft as show in the picture below. How does one go

Answer 1

We were able to dodge most of this in the first place through explicit use of HTTP endpoints for storage (we don't store anything too sensitive there).

In case you're in a similar situation and can do with HTTP endpoints, there is a workaround that allows you to upgrade your roles permanently. It involves Azure Powershell deployments with local packages and seems to work even when upgrades via the both portals continue to fail.